LondonLax

I'm just going to leave this here: From the Huffington Post http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/12191766

The main problem with an owner telling all and sundry that we will be throwing money around in an attempt to become one of the 'top three clubs in the world' is that other teams see us coming from a mile off and take us to the cleaners. All that talk may get fans excited but it does no favours to the guys who have to negotiate transfer deals.

I don't think Clinton is actually that bad. She has lied in her career but no more than any other politician and overall she has had a pretty successful career in public service for a long period of time. Fox news and their ilk have been throwing out everything they can think of to discredit her (and Obama for the last 8 years) and some of that mud is sticking in the eyes of the general public, regardless of whether people actually consume that extremest media directly or not. However if this was a normal election cycle with a regular opposition candidate that conservatives were positive about and we were all discussing policy issues I don't think there would be nearly as much hate for Clinton out there. The well was poisoned by the far rights hatred of Obama and their spokes people in the media have been frothing at the mouth ever since. This election was always going to be nasty regardless of who the Democrats put up but having Trump in there as a lightening rod has only made things a hundred times worse.

The amount of times people spell 'lose' as 'loose'. For some reason it winds me up. The bizarre thing is that it is easier to spell it correctly than to add an extra 'o'.

I have seen a few comments saying he can get us promoted then we will replace him and push on in the Premier League. Remarkable. If he somehow manages promotion from here he will have earned a run in the Premier League, we would not be sacking him unless he we had a disastrous start to the season.

A solid but unspectacular choice.

Apparently there are more of these types of videos to come out recorded during his time on The Apprentice.

Australian fans are calling for him to be dropped for the first time. I'm getting a bit worried.

It is the other way around. It is a volatile market because it is potentially not down to guess work. Most betting comes down to guess work because (in theory) no one can know the result of a match, it is a guess work all round. The bookies price in their odds and take home a good amount of money no matter the result. With a manager appointment, at some point someone is going to know the result before the bookies do, thus taking the guess work out of it. To cover themselves bookmakers give crap odds, adjust the odds dramatically anytime they get a bet in, restrict the maximum amount that can be bet and suspend betting anytime a decent volume of bets come in on one person. It makes for a much more volatile market.

Well 6th place doesn't mean promotion. Top two are promotion but finishing 4th-6th is only a 1 in 4 chance (in fact being promoted from 6th probably happens less than that). I would not count on going up via the lottery of the playoffs.

Losing becomes a habit. You can change the whole side but if the players lose their confidence we might well be back to square one. Who knows if it can be recovered.

I think his time is up unfortunately.

Can we please just play a classic 4-3-3 with 3 actual midfielders and two from our collection of wide forwards playing either side of Kodjia?

A shame we are not still in the Premier League

How often has a team bought a whole new first 11 then immediately hit the ground running in the league. It is always a struggle to integrate so many new players at the same time.

Sacking the manager every few months is just utterly pointless.

It was always going to be a tall order to improve on Gueye, he's in the heart of the midfield who are second in the Premier League. I still think Jedinak will be good for us though.

Haha to be honest that's pretty funny. Harmless football banter, don't get worked up about it.

We had a bigger crowd against Forest than Man City had in the Champions League this week.

Even if your rumour that he was interested in a pay rise is true, is that a problem? I am sure everyone on the planet would like a wage increase when they sign a new contract. That's still a long way from rejecting a contract because he wanted more money and decided to move elsewhere which is what some people have made up about him.

S.O.S! Save Our Season!

Are there any players we have had over the last 20 years you do rate?

I was never that impressed with him before his injury, he was a liability last season at the back. We might be able to get something out of him as a left winger and we could definitely use one of those to provide some width for our many forwards.

The playoff places are a lottery though. I would not count on coming up by finishing 3rd-6th. Even then we look a long way off 6th at the moment.

Steve Bruce? Neil Warnock? It is depressing being a Villa fan these days